Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in LiteratureGerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy. The absence of a predetermined theoretical framework has resulted in an idiosyntractic volume on the different forms of play. |
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... argument in this defense of a literature of spells and spills: the creative-critical complicity this literature demands is closely paralleled by the creative-critical complicity involved in creating (i.e., performing and listening to) a ...
... argument in this defense of a literature of spells and spills: the creative-critical complicity this literature demands is closely paralleled by the creative-critical complicity involved in creating (i.e., performing and listening to) a ...
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... his rather pure and moral existence. But his whole argument is a negative one, based on the premise that to call up a positive response to oneself, one need only make that other person feel disgust for his TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 17.
... his rather pure and moral existence. But his whole argument is a negative one, based on the premise that to call up a positive response to oneself, one need only make that other person feel disgust for his TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 17.
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... argument to work thus. And yet it is also true that that is precisely what he wanted to happen. It is, as a matter ... arguments. He insists on being both utterly in power and utterly abject, dependent on our tolerance. He trades on what ...
... argument to work thus. And yet it is also true that that is precisely what he wanted to happen. It is, as a matter ... arguments. He insists on being both utterly in power and utterly abject, dependent on our tolerance. He trades on what ...
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... argument for this position could be forwarded than that we do accept, even welcome, the abuse of the Underground Man's narration—not because he is unctuous or engaging but simply because the "you" that he uses somehow embraces us? And ...
... argument for this position could be forwarded than that we do accept, even welcome, the abuse of the Underground Man's narration—not because he is unctuous or engaging but simply because the "you" that he uses somehow embraces us? And ...
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... arguments, how to behave by wholly theatrical means. When certain things happen, the child hears (or sees) that one has to laugh. The child laughs with the others, when they laugh, and does not know why. In most cases the child is quite ...
... arguments, how to behave by wholly theatrical means. When certain things happen, the child hears (or sees) that one has to laugh. The child laughs with the others, when they laugh, and does not know why. In most cases the child is quite ...
Contents
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Playing with Authorship | 63 |
InterLude | 91 |
PlayTranslations | 91 |
Literature as Game of Pleasure | 99 |
Literature and RolePlaying | 137 |
Literature as Existential Play | 171 |
PostLude | 191 |
LIST OF WORKS CITED | 195 |
NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS | 199 |
INDEX | 200 |
The Games of Literature | 99 |
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